Five Mile Cemetery

Abraham and Lucy (Myers) Bast and their seven children moved here from Kentucky to join the Peters Colony. In 1859, Abraham Bast donated one acre for a nondenominational church and school on the south side of Five Mile Creek. The adjacent burial ground may have been used in the 1840s, but the earliest known graves are those of Bast and Arthur Ledbetter from 1859. Ledbetter lived in Dallas County eleven years and established four Baptist churches. James Horton and David King also donated land for the church and graveyard. Burials include area pioneers and two Confederate soldiers. Five Mile Baptist Church moved to another site in the 1960s. The cemetery has hundreds of burials and is still in use. Historic Texas Cemetery -2008

Five Mile Cemetery is a historical marker in Dallas, Dallas County, dedicated in 2008. It is one of 352 historical markers documented in Dallas County in the Texas Historical Commission Atlas, among 574 historic sites cataloged across the county.

The site sits at 32.7069, -96.8831 near Dallas. The nearest cataloged historic site is The Hord Log Cabin (historical marker), about 0.6 miles away. Others within a short drive include Ledbetter Family, CAF Airpower Museum, and Oak Cliff Presbyterian Church.

This record corresponds to Texas Historical Commission Atlas #5113006710. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.